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Feature
WedNEsdAy, O ctoòer 18, 2000
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Small horses worth their weight
MAGGIE JIRASEK
Feature Co-Editor
Summer Sayles, recipient of the
American Miniature Horse Asso
ciation (AMHA) Youth Scholar
ship, and AMHA National Cham
pion, is one of Clackamas’ most
accomplished students.
Born in Portland and raised in
Sandy, Sayles lives on a 20-acre
farm in Estacada, where she and
her family own about 40 miniature
horses.
“I bought my first mini when I
was about 12 years old. It was a
good and expensive horse; so my
family and I thought we might as
well show it. That’s how we came
up with the idea to show horses,”
Sayles explained.
Since then, Sayles has bought
several more horses and her col
lection became more numerous as
she began breeding them.
“I was 13 when I started show
ing my horses. Right now I go to
about seven shows a year. Each
time, I take up to six horses with
me,” Sayles stated.
For the past seven years, Sayles
has attended shows in Oregon,
Washington and California. She
has been quite successful in the
ring and the year-end high point
awards. She is also co-chair of the
North West Miniature Horse Club
(NWMHC), and is in charge of the
publicity for one of the shows.
“I have won several scholar
ships, including the $3000 AMHA
Youth Scholarship, and I have won
the Super Amateur Award in Reno
as well as the National Champion
ship,” Sayles reported.
Being a student and showing
horses is not easy, and it requires
good time management.
“It is very stressful from time to
time. I miss a lot of school. I try to
make sure that all my classes are
on Tuesdays and Thursdays so I
can show on the weekends. I also
take a lot of on-line classes and
PHOTO COURTESY OF WWW.AMHA.COM
make sure it’s O.K. with my teach
Summer Sayles wins AMHA National Championship earlier this year In Ft. Worth, Texas.
ers if I miss class,” Sayles re
marked.
then this’; that was pretty funny.”
Receiving scholarships as well receive enough scholarships,” cause I have never done some
thing like this before,” Sayles
Sayles, who is majoring in edu
as selling some'of her horses Sayles explained.
cation, has already made plans for
helps Sayles pay for school and
One of Sayles' most memo remarked. “It was really funny,
because neither one of us-knew
her future. She wants to become
equipment.
rable moments was when she and
an elementary school teacher and,
“It’s very hard for me to sell her mom delivered one of her how to do it. My mom was sitting
there and reading a book on how
in her free time, continue to show
my horses, especially if I’ve had foals.
to deliver horses. She was giving
her horses.
them for a long time, but the
“When my mare had her baby,
Next year, she wants to try the Na
money helps me out a lot, that’s I was the one who delivered it. It me directions and telling me all the
time ‘now you have to do this and
tionals again.
how I pay my tuition if I don’t was really exciting for me, be
Adventure writers on campus
TAM OLIVER
Feature Co-Editor
BARBARA GUNDLE / Contributor
Molly Gloss will read from
"Wild Life," set in the Pacific
Northwest.
MARION ETTLINGER/ Contributor
Tucker Malarkey will read from
"An Obvious Enchantment,"
Inspired by two years in Africa.
Two writers of adventure fiction
will read from their recently pub
lished novels at Authors’ Night,
Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in Gregory Forum.
Molly Gloss' previous novels,
“Dazzle of Day” and “The Jump-
Off Creek,” both won the Pacific
Northwest Booksellers Award and
the Oregon Book Award. She was
also the recipient of the 1996 Whit
ing Award.
She will be reading from “Wild
Life,” described by Library Jour
nal as a book that “.. .without mor
alizing, explores the deeper mean
ing of what it really is to be hu
man.” Set in the Pacific Northwest
in 1905, its main character, Char
lotte Bridger Drummond, is a ci
gar-smoking, widowed mother of
five children who writes dime-store
adventure novels to support her
family. When her housekeeper’s
daughter turns up missing, she
joins the search. There are specu
lations that the girl has been car
ried off by ape-like creatures spot
ted in the wilderness. During the
search, Charlotte is separated from
her search partner and subse
quently becomes lost also. Told
from her journal entries, thejiook
has been described as “...gor
geous (the writing), the characters
real and vivid, and the story trans
forming” by Publisher’s Weekly.
Tucker Malarkey was co-author
of “Sleepwalking Through His
tory,” a bestseller about the
Lyndon Johnson era. Educated at
Georgetown University, Malarkey
wrote for The Washington Post for
four years. She is a recipient of the
Michener Award from the Iowa
Writers’ Workshop.
Her recently published novel,
“An Obvious Enchantment,” has
been described by Peter
Matthiesson, author of numerous
books including ‘The Snow Leop
ard” and “Tigers in the Snow,” as
“An exciting, intelligently imag
ined story, well written and well
paced, with a very skillful use of
place and atmosphere.” Inspired
by a two-year stay on an island
off the coast of Africa, Malarkey
has created the story of Ingrid
Holtz, a woman who comes to a
remote island off the coast of
Kenya in search of her professor,
Nick Templeton. Templeton has
vanished while researching his
theory that Islam was brought to
the Swahili coast by a legendary
king.
According to Publisher’s
Weekly, the novel is “An uncom
mon romance charting the restless
intellect of an obsessive aca
demic.”
Gloss and Malarkey will be reading
from their novels Oct. 25, 7 p.m. in
the Gregory Forum.
$2 suggested donation for Friends of the Library.
By Jim Spickelmier
Red and white striped blue shoes,
with stars,
like tattered flags adorned the feet
of a woebegone old woman
laboring a cluttered shopping cart
up the cold
snow covered
windswept street,
past my seat behind a window
which proclaimed across three frames
Pacific Wine Company,
Delicatessen,
Espresso.
As I sipped a latte, my attention strayed
through a side'windowpane I viewed,
a little ragamuffin girl
awkwardly determined to figure skate
on hard packed,
dirty white,
ice like snow.
.. .And I wondered...
Would she claim Olympic fame
or would her fate be the same
as a woebegone old woman,
with red and white striped blue shoes,
with stars,
like tattered flags around the feet -
laboring a cluttered shopping cart
up the cold
snow covered
windswept street.